Briefer Notices

Briefer Notices By Henry J. Cadbury The tercentenary of the birth of Francis Daniel Pastorius in 1651 occasioned some articles or pamphlets which may now be listed, together with some more substantial items at the time of the 250th anniversary of the founding of Germantown in 1683. For the celebration of Pastorius Day, December 9, 1951, the German American Committee of Greater New York issued an attractive program with brief sketches of Pastorius, 1651-1719, and of other persons of German -American note, the text of the 1688 protest against slavery which Pastorius signed, etc Howard W. Elkinton contributed articles on "Francis Daniel Pastorius after 300 Years" to the Philadelphia Forum, Vol. 21, No. 2 (October, 1951), 9, 15 and on "Francis Daniel Pastorius — Free Man" to the Germantowne Crier, Vol. 3, No. 2 (September, 1951), 10, 27. Francis Daniel Pastorius and the 250th Anniversary of the Founding of Germantown by Albert B. Faust is a twenty-two page pamphlet issued by the Carl Schurz Foundation, Inc (Philadelphia, 1934) and containing an address delivered at the Pastorius Celebration in Cincinnati, October 29, 1933. The Year Book of the German Society of Pennsylvania, Vol. 3 (Spring 1952), published the three addresses given at the Pastorius Celebration in Germantown on October 6, 1951, by Governor John S. Fine, Professor Harry W. Pfund, and Robert T. McCracken respectively (pp. 14-29). The facts of his career and his significance for the past and the future are presented independendy in the three articles. Charles Francis Jenkins wrote a comprehensive but brief sketch "Francis Daniel Pastorius" in the American German Review, VoL L No. 2 (December, 1934), 22-25, 47. * * · In the Germantowne Crier, Vol. 6, No. 1 (March, 1954), 24, are given some excerpts from Joshua Evans's Journal, as printed in Friends Miscellany. * # * The centenary of the death of Amelia Opie in December, 1853, has been marked by at least the following articles outside of Quaker periodicals : Frances Collingwood, "The Gay Quaker," in East Anglian Magazine, 13 (1954), 277-283, nicely illustrated; Helen MacGregor, "Amelia Opie (1769-1853)" in Norfolk Magazine, 7 (1954), 40-43. The Norwich (England) Public Libraries have published in a leaflet Amelia Opie 17691853 a brief account of her life and a list of works by and about her. * * * The Durham University Journal, N.S. 14 (1953), 94-103, had an article on "Luke Howard and Goethe" by D. F. S. Scott, the author of 121 122Bulletin of Friends Historical Association Some English Correspondents of Goethe, (London: Methuen, 1949), in which the connection was also discussed (pp. 46-54) with references to earlier anieles by E. F. Howard and by H. W. Pfund (See this Bulletin, 29 [1940], 60). # * » An attractive portrait, "Rufus Jones, Friend," based upon personal acquaintance and his own writing was contributed by Janet Payne Whitney to the Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 193, No. 4 (April, 1954), 29-33. # # * Constance Buel Burnett has followed her children's book on Lucretia Mott with an adult account of Five for Freedom (New York: Abelard Press, 1953), which gives sketches of five women interested in women's rights, viz., Lucretia Mott (pp. 13-48), Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony (pp. 177-256), and Carrie Chapman Catt, The page references for those who were Friends are given, but the others also had Quaker contacts. # # * A slender pamphlet by H. Liebert (New Haven, limited edition, printed for the author, 1948) gives an account of Johnson's Last Literary Project. John Scott, the Quaker poet of Amwell (1730-1783), and Dr. Samuel Johnson first met about 1766 and in spite of difference in politics maintained a friendly acquaintance. Soon after Scott's death David Barclay asked the Doctor to write the biography of the poet, offering to supply materials. Johnson agreed, but he died before anything was written. This episode, neglected in most Jobnsoniana, is known from John Hoole who took over the materials and wrote the memoir prefixed to Scott's posthumous volume of Critical Essays. # » * Albright G. Zimmerman's article on "James Logan, Proprietary Agent" (Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 78 [1954], 143-176) is an extensive and highly technical anide on the efforts Logan made in...